When Haluchott was chosen as a Dryan, it was to shepherd the vast herds of animal life on Arboreas. She indulged in twilit talks with welkineyes and made friends of the mesmerscales; she lent her hand to the smallest springrunner and the largest dragon alike. But those peaceful seasons were long ago, before the Skordyre woke, and Haluchott learned what true power meant.

There was no birdsong the day that the Skordyre returned from their ages-long slumber, only the deep rumble of churning earth and tearing roots deep below. The silence was finally broken by the horrendous shrieks of the bursting vanguard and the high-pitched chittering of thousands of infantry pouring up from sinkholes in the forest floor. As trees turned to splinters and beasts to shreds in the onslaught, Haluchott was consumed with a rage unlike any she had ever known. The Skordyre were not animals, but a plague, a blight upon Arboreas that must be stopped at any cost. And her own people had grown too peaceful, too complacent, too weak to stand against them.

Furious, she bent the will of every creature she could grasp, no longer a shepherd but a general mustering an army against the oncoming swarm. The creatures of the forest became her legion, rising at a sweep of her staff to tear apart Skordyre soldiers or trample them underfoot. She repelled the insect hordes that day, as she has done for many seasons since. Ironic that the High Cities called her corruptor, saying that her grip on the forest’s spirit was too tight. After all, it was by her long hand that they remained safe.

The day Haluchott was almost eviscerated by a Skordyre queen, she was summoned by the Valkyrie Utgar to fight on Valhalla, in much the way Haluchott herself might have commanded a zenithwing to peck at a Skordyre mite. But there are Skordyre here too, endless swarms encroaching on the foothills of Utgar’s mountains, and Haluchott calls the beasts of countless worlds to rage into battle against them.

Haluchott, Corrupter of Beasts is available in the Heroes of Arboreas Army Expansion!